Vocabulary
What is the difference in denotation and connotation?
denotation: - dictionary (literal) meaning
connotation – implied meaning; emotion
associated with the word (+/-/neutral)
When writing an introduction for an essay, what three elements should be included?
Answer: hook, bridge (background information and connection to thesis), and thesis statement (central claim and support claims)
Explain a test-taking strategy for reading comprehension tests.
-Preview Questions
-Chunking the text
-Checking answers with reasoning
Identify the verb in this sentence.
Julie stalked away from the gossiping group of girls.
Answer: stalked (ACTION verb – ACTIVE verb – past tense)
This type of figurative language includes words that represent sounds
ex: Bang! Meow! Hiccup!
What is onomatopoeia?
Define theme and give an example.
Answer: the central idea, message, or purpose of a literary work.
Examples will vary: “Knowledge is power.”
“Be who you are.”
“Follow your passions.”
When writing a conclusion for an essay, what two elements should be included?
1. Restate thesis (Vary word choice)
2. Universal: Why does it matter? Turn it back to the reader
What would the proper format for parenthetical citation (citing text) in an interpretive essay on Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver?
Answer: “quoted text” (Lowry 14).
Note: 14 represents the page number
Identify the preposition in this sentence.
The elderly janitor watched the careless children throw trash around the playground.
Answer: around (Shows the positional relationship between the trash and the playground).
This type of figurative language can be found in the example below:
“Crouched like lions in the ledges of sewers”
- Roaches by Peter Wild
Answer: Simile; compares using like or as
Define protagonist.
The character that a plot centers around.
Explain the difference between a thesis statement and a topic sentence.
Answer: a thesis statement provides the roadmap for the entire essay with a (thesis) central claim and support claims. It is the controlling idea for the entire essay.
A topic sentence is the main idea statement for the body paragraph which addresses ONE of the support claims in the thesis statement.
List and give examples of three types of figurative language.
Alliteration: Susie sells cookies on the street corner.
Simile – We scattered like bees in a hive when the AP found us in the hall.
Metaphor – The snow is a white blanket. Their school was a prison.
Onomatopoeia – Boom!
Idiom – You can’t judge a book by its cover. Piece of cake; when pigs fly
Hyperbole – I’ve told you a million times; You’re grounded forever.
Personification – The lockers mocked the students as they left school.
Identify the antecedent in the sentence below:
The teacher said Johnny was a poor student because he waited until the last minute to study for the exam, and completed his lab problems in a careless manner.
Answer: Johnny – He/his is the pronoun – Johnny is who the pronoun references.
This figurative language is seen in the following example: The silver snake slithered toward the sink.
Answer: Alliteration.
The silver snake slithered toward the sink.
Explain the difference between tone and mood.
TONE is the author/speaker’s attitude toward a subject and MOOD is the overall emotional quality experienced by the reader. Remember, the author’s tone sets the mood.
What are the four elements of a body paragraph?
Topic sentence
Evidence (direct support from text)
Commentary (ratio 1:2+) Significance of examples
Summary (concluding)sentence
List three hook strategies for writing engaging introductions.
Question
Surprising Fact
Anecdote
Quote
Sensory Detail
Identify the proper nounds in the sentence below:
Ms.Krug, a science teacher at Williams, strutted her knowledge at the Florida Science Conference when the group explored scientific concepts.
Ms. Krug, Williams, Florida Science Conference
Explain the figurative language seen here: The wind whispered to me.
Answer: Personification. – Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.
List and explain three elements of poetry.
Rhythm – pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
rhyme scheme – repetition of sound at end of words
stanza – group of lines that form a unit in a poem
theme – overall message or central idea
free verse – poetry without a fixed pattern of meter and rhyme
figurative language -- simile, metaphor, imagery
What are the three strategies of rhetorical appeal used when writing an argumentative?
Pathos: emotional argument.
Logos: logical argument.
Ethos: ethical/moral argument.
Draw and properly label a plot diagram.
Exposition, Rising Action, Conflict, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
Identify the adverb in the following sentence: Tonight we are having pizza.
Tonight -- describing WHEN the verb will occur.
The figurative language is a commonly know phrase defined as “a phrase or expression whose meaning can't be understood from the ordinary meanings of the words in it.”
Answer: Idiom:
Ex – It’s raining cats and dogs!
I’m getting cold feet.
Get off my back!